Software collaboration platforms like GitHub provide perfect opportunities for agentic automation. At GitHub Next we have developed GitHub Agentic Workflows, a framework for exploring practical, safe semi-automated software automation for repo-centric behaviours, focusing on “Continuous AI” scenarios that parallel CI/CD DevOps - Continuous Documentation, Test Improvement, Perf Improvement, Accessibility Improvement and much more. By safely bringing agentic behaviours directly into the GitHub information space on GitHub Actions, we allow developers and enterprise agentic architects exceptional creativity in exploring how automated coding agents can boost team productivity aligned with team goals, opening the doors to a new era of semi-automated software engineering.

I am a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. I work with researchers, Microsoft and open source communities to make better programming technologies, and, through that, make people more productive and happier. My main responsibility is the design and implementation of the F# programming language. I’ve also worked on the design of virtual machines, the C# language (being co-responsible for C# and .NET generics, and one of many contributors to C# asynchronous programming) and, indirectly, Visual Basic and other .NET languages.